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A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.
Regina Music Box – Regina's music boxes were their original product, and they had an 80–90% share of the market at the company's peak. Regina music boxes use a flat metal disc, as opposed to a cylinder. Sizes ranged from 8.5 to 27 inches. The boxes were renowned for the rich tone, and they used a double set of tuned teeth.
In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the first recorder that could also play back Analog; sound waveform transcribed to tinfoil 1883 Piano roll: A piano roll used in a player piano Digital (vacuum-operated piano) 1886 Music Box disc 8'' disc for playback on a music box Digital (vacuum-operated music box) Late 1880s Brown Wax cylinder
Music Box Brazil, a Brazilian music television channel; musicbox (German TV channel) Music Box Italia, an Italian music television channel; The Music Box, a 1957 United Kingdom music variety show produced by Associated-Rediffusion; Music Box, a 1981 Canadian educational television series produced by Heather Conkie
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A Polyphon playing "Silent Night" (the music starts 68 seconds into the video) A 1905 PolyphonA Polyphon is a disc-playing music box.The machine was invented in 1870; it was first manufactured by the Polyphon Musikwerke, in Leipzig, Germany, full-scale production having started about 1896 and continuing into the early 20th century.
Antoine Favre-Salomon (30 November 1734 – 17 August 1820) was a Swiss watchmaker.In 1796, he invented a pocket watch with an embedded musical mechanism. [1] which was later recognised as the first "comb" music box.
In 1889, Louis Glass and William S. Arnold invented the nickel-in-the-slot phonograph, in San Francisco. [3] This was an Edison Class M Electric Phonograph retrofitted with a device patented under the name of 'Coin Actuated Attachment for Phonograph'. The music was heard via one of four listening tubes. [4]